• _MusicJunkie@beehaw.org
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    4 months ago

    For each project there is one authoritative instance, one “server” that everyone pushes to. Otherwise you get chaos.

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      4 months ago

      That’s not a git thing though. You can totally have multiple remotes and the remotes are just git repositories themselves. Git is 100% decentralized. There is technically nothing stopping you from having multiple remotes.

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      4 months ago

      And nobody ever forked a project, and lived happily ever after, then end.

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        4 months ago

        If you want to work with the original project, you have to push to the server that controls the original project.

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          4 months ago

          No you don’t, you can just fork it, add a commit, and walk away, and everyone can decide which one they want to clone

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      4 months ago

      That may be how you use it, but that’s not baked into git. See my previous response. There’s a bunch of FUD in this thread for some reason.

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        4 months ago

        People want simple answers, and “blockchain bad” seems to satisfy many